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Feb. 27th, 2004 07:01 amSomehow I thought that going through the process of becoming a professor would allow me to teach *adults.* I know realize that this assumption was grossly wrong. And I think that the beauty of TAing is that you get to babysit both the students and the professor most of the time. With no autonomy to teach the stuff you know best - it killed me to cover Alexander Nevsky yesterday - I could have given a nice little lecture on Prokofiev, Eisenstein, historical dramas in Stalinist Russia, etc. Instead I got to be the AV/projector nymph yet again and the prof asked me for the correct pronunciation of "Sergei."
Then I got to hand back the midterms I graded and get a bag full of papers to grade. The students had been told at least twice in class to turn in a hard copy in addition to emailing one in, as well as the fact that it is listed in the syllabus - you know that thing that is a contract between the professor and the students that might be worth taking a cursory glance at every once in a while......
3 or 4 students didn't have hard copies. I have no interest in e-copies, this is the professors thing - I am certainly not interesting in printing out 40 papers. So I told the students to get the hard copies into my TA box by 5 pm and it wouldn't be late. Of course today was the day when both of the advisors who have there offices where the TA boxes are went home early and locked up the room where the boxes are. I put a note to turn in the papers upstairs, but none the less I feel like I can't enforce the late policy if students come to me and claim they tried to turn it in. Ugh.
Then I got to hand back the midterms I graded and get a bag full of papers to grade. The students had been told at least twice in class to turn in a hard copy in addition to emailing one in, as well as the fact that it is listed in the syllabus - you know that thing that is a contract between the professor and the students that might be worth taking a cursory glance at every once in a while......
3 or 4 students didn't have hard copies. I have no interest in e-copies, this is the professors thing - I am certainly not interesting in printing out 40 papers. So I told the students to get the hard copies into my TA box by 5 pm and it wouldn't be late. Of course today was the day when both of the advisors who have there offices where the TA boxes are went home early and locked up the room where the boxes are. I put a note to turn in the papers upstairs, but none the less I feel like I can't enforce the late policy if students come to me and claim they tried to turn it in. Ugh.
